The 1981 Nobel prize-winner Elias Canetti once wrote a play called Their Days Are Numbered, in which people are named after the year in which they're doomed to die. He couldn't think of anything to add after the first short act. The same is the case with this high-concept sci-fi thriller by the author of The Truman Show. In a dystopian Los Angeles nobody ages after they're 25, money has been replaced by time, only the rich become immortal, people pay by the minute, steal hours off one another, and the world is policed by timekeepers. The endless chases on foot and by car are unsuccessful attempts to prevent the audience thinking about the plot.